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26 February 2008

How embarrassment I was driving along with my new flatmate - which was in itself rather embarrassing, as he drives a "Ute" (utility van?) when all of a sudden we pull up at a set of traffic lights... Where upon, to my HORROR, he winds down my window, and starts shouting "NO!" to the person driving in the car next to me.→[More:]

"NO! Don't do that. If you put your finger any further in, you'll reach your brain!"

The nose-picker next to me was quite a good sort about it all, thank goodness, even going so far as to mime (I hope) eating it!

I, however, was in fully fledged red face mode.

Wished the ground would open me up.

Things could have been worse, I guess.

He didn't catch ME picking my nose!

post by: jonathanstrange at: 22:59 | 11 comments

hmm... spot the newbie... sorry, I didn't mean that to all appear on the front page.

More red-faced embarrassment.

posted by jonathanstrange 26 February | 23:01

Fixed jonathanstrange. We think so you don't have to.

posted by arse_hat 26 February | 23:04

My BIL always refers to nose-picking as panning for gold.

posted by iconomy 26 February | 23:42

Wow. Just, wow. I don't think any of my friends would ever live that down. (If I learned anything from my mother, it was through constant ridicule...)

posted by muddgirl 26 February | 23:44

I heard a Jack Nicholson story once: he was at a light, picking his nose. A beautiful girl smiles at him. He rolls down the window, and she say, "no, no...put it back in!"

posted by craniac 26 February | 23:45

(Psst: Americish for 'Ute' is 'pickup truck')

posted by pompomtom 26 February | 23:56

"she said"

posted by craniac 26 February | 23:56

That's hilarious. And what's wrong with driving in a "ute?"

posted by jtron 27 February | 02:03

Why do people sitting in a car think they're invisible? I hope the most embarrassing thing I do in my car is never worse than singing.

posted by essexjan 27 February | 03:35

Roses don't grow in our noses,
But we pick 'em anyway.

posted by plinth 27 February | 06:33

For that matter, why is "picking one's nose" so embarrasing? We all have boogers, and sometimes they're annoying. IMO, it's better to dig 'em out than to wait for them to dangle!

posted by muddgirl 27 February | 10:39

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